Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface to the Second Edition ix
4. Preface to the First Edition xiii
5. The Historical Background 1
6. Lessing's Philosophical and Theological Development 47
7. Lessing versus the Theologians 75
8. Lessing's Philosophy of Religion and Its Leibnizian Roots 113
9. Conclusion 151
10. Lessing's Conception of Revelation as Education 155
11. Lessing's Spinozistic Exercises 167
12. Notes 179
13. Bibliography 219
14. Index 227